Immigrant Stories: Nonfiction

What's it like to move your whole life to a new place? Read these true stories, personal experiences, opinions, and history

Updated June 5, 2023
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Milwaukie Ledding Library
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"They take our jobs!" : and 20 other myths about immigration
Chomsky, Aviva
Paper Book
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society....
Brother, I'm dying
Danticat, Edwidge
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Dew Breaker comes a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to the authors heart--her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
Separated : inside an American tragedy
Soboroff, Jacob
Ebook
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." -Rachel Maddow The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America's systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border.<...
Solito : a memoir
Zamora, Javier
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller * Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography * Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

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